Lib. i. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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Narci fie ; and it may be was the fame our Author in the precedent chapter mentions he receuied 
from Robtne • but he gluing the figure of another, and a defcription not well fitting this I can af- 
firme nothing of certaintie. fhisdouble NarcifTe of Robine growes with a ftalke fome footin 
height, and the floure is very double, ofa pale yellow colour, and it feemes commonly to diuide 
it felfe into fome fix partitions, the leaues of the floure lying one vpon another euen to the middle 
of the floure. This may be called Narciffius palltdus multiplex Robini , Robines double pale Narcifl'c 
t I Narcijfus omnium tnaximus. 
The Nonpareilk Daffodil!. 
£ 3 Pfeudonarciffus flore plena. 
ThedoubleyellowDaffoJiH.^^ . .. 
3 The next to this is that which from our Author,the firft obferuer thereof,is vulgarly called 
Gerrards NarcifTe : the leaues and rootdo not much differ from the ordinarie DaffodiTl • the ftalk 
is fcarce a foot high, bearing at the top thereof a floure very double ; the fixe outmoft leaues are 
of the fame yellow colour as the ordinarie one is ; thofe that are next are commonly as deepe as 
the tube or trunke of the Angle one, and amongff them are mixed alfo other paler coloured leaues, 
with fome green ft ripes here & there among thofe leaues:thefe floures are fomtimes all contained’ 
an a trunk like that ofthe Angle one, the Axeout-Ieaues excepted : other whiles this inclofure 
is broke, and then the floure ft ands faire open like as that of the laft defcribed . Lobcl in the fecond 
part of his Aducrfaria tells, That our Author Matter Gerrard found this in WilttTiire, growing in 
hhnfhad dv It P °° re ° Id woman > illwhicl1 P Iace former ty a Cunning man(as they vulgarly terme 
doidr Ie ? NmcHT Caded ^ LatinC ’ accordin § t0 thc Englifli, Narcijfus multiplex Gerardt , Gerrards 
The figure me hercgwc yoi is exprcjjed fimcwhat toe tall, and the floure is not alteoctbcr Codouble as it 
ought to be. ° ’ 
4 There are alfo two or three double yellow Daffodils yet remaining. The firft of thefe is cal- 
led Wtlmots NarcifTe, (from Matter Wilmotft ate of Bow) and this hath a very faire double & lar^e 
yellow floure compofedofdeeperand paler yellow leaues orderly mixed. 
The fecond (which is called Tradficams NarcifTe, from Matter Iohn Tradefcam of South-Lam- 
eth) is the largcft and ftateheft of all the reft 5 in the largenefl’e of the floures it exceeds Wilmots, 
w inch otherwife it much refembles^fome of the leaues whereof the floure conflfts are fharp poin- 
ted, 
